Only Ruby, only hardcore!

    In the early morning (or late night) on January 9th, I arrived at Sheremetyevo Airport in order to meet Josh Kalderimis from Travis-CI. The printed nameplate stayed home, but by a lucky chance, we met Josh almost immediately and his first sentence was: " Toster? I am hungry, you got toasts? " I will not say that this question, asked with a smile on my face, perplexed me, but I did not expect that all the remaining days of my stay in snowy Moscow, the guys would come up with more and more jokes about the toaster and toasts.



    By the way, we apologize for their absence at the last conference, everything is simple - they were eaten by the speakers before the start of the speech.

    With Gregg Pollackit turned out no less funny from Envy Labs - having met him a little later, we successfully traveled all the famous traffic jams and instead of checking in at the hotel he asked him to drive around the city. As an excursion, we decided to call in the city of Dzerzhinsky, where Gregg was most interested in the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery. Despite the severe frosts, we managed to feed the geese-swans, which live in large numbers on the territory.



    As for Fabiu Akita (from Codeminer42) and Douglas Campos (from RedHat), I probably had the most unusual dialogue with them in my life:

    - Hi Alex, we managed to freeze back in Germany, and the pilot said that in Russia even colder!
    - Do not worry, I brought you hats and scarves so that you do not die along the way.
    - The hat is okay, and the scarf ... what is it and how to use it?
    - In what sense?
    - Where to put it on? Show us.

    After short magical passes with their hands, everyone was packed and ready to leave the airport. However, until the very departure, the guys had great difficulty moving through the fresh air, since in their area the temperature rarely drops below 20 degrees Celsius in winter - having forgotten to look at the weather forecast, these desperate guys arrived almost in T-shirts and shorts.

    But the most important thing is that the absence of toasts and morning coffee did not stop us from organizing an excellent event on Friday.



    Half an hour before the start of registration, we found a fairly large number of people awaiting its start - this inspired confidence and hope that not a single report would remain unheard, although during the conference we had several technical hitches.



    Gregg's speech was the first in the program (which he was very happy because he promised a lot of technical things that would have been much worse learned after lunch) - he quickly took matters into his own hands and began to tell the conference participants about the code changes in the Rails 3 kernel. Gregg not missed - the audience literally woke up, took all his words with which he described new techniques of use.











    The second came Fabiu Akita, a speaker from faraway Brazil, who began talking about various scaling techniques for highly dynamic and interactive Rails applications.







    Many participants were waiting for his speech, since Fabiu was one of the most famous and noticeable “engines” of the Rails community in South America and even before the start of the conference it was obvious that the topic of application scaling would be highly demanded.



    Ivan Yevtukhovich appeared on stage with an excellent mood and with an equally notable report on how Evil Martians(to whom we say tremendous thanks for the help in shaping the conference program) prepared the Russian Groupon. Such a conversation (in Rails key) was first heard in Russia, and therefore listening to the first report and watching slides in Russian was doubly interesting - before Ivan, no one had ever talked about organizing work in such popular and voluminous Rails projects from the Moscow scene.





    Finally, the last (before lunch) report was devoted to the practices of using JRuby - despite the burned converter and the inability to display slides on the big screen, Timofey Klimenko from HotSpot managed to talk about several interesting points about using JRuby and the JVM platform as a whole.



    Simultaneous translation worked at the conference (foreign speakers were translated into Russian, Russian reports into English) - Douglas Kampos, the penultimate speaker, noted that there were very interesting moments in Timofey’s speech, about which he himself was going to tell.



    Then there was a two-course lunch (speakers ate the third dish for all participants again))) - a good opportunity to chat with colleagues.







    Maybe lunch and really did not meet someone's expectations, but you understand - we do not prepare ourselves) Anyway, .toster - is not primarily zhrachka and knowledge and the opportunity to talk with well-known speakers:









    And just chat







    Increased concentration of gray hoodies:



    During the conference, the lounge area was open all the time, where you could lie on ottomans and chat with friends. Thanks to Reg.ru, which fed popcorn and soldered cola!





    After lunch, we had the honor to see Konstantin Haze , who could not attend live due to the tyagomotin with a visa, but this did not prevent him from conducting a meaningful report about the history of Sinatra, about how it was created and what the future holds for this wonderful project.



    One of the most striking presentations was by Joshua Calderimis:









    Josh became the star of the {ruby} -conference. Toaster - it immediately became clear that he intended not only to tell interesting details (concerning Travis CI), but also to arrange a small show, lifting the whole hall to its feet .









    The branded shirt, smile and magnificent slides on napkins are unambiguously remembered by everyone for a long time, as well as how it is most convenient to break a large product into its constituent parts, managing it in this form.

    Douglas Campos, tired after the flight and not having time to sleep at night because of the time difference, was resting during the reports of his colleagues ...



    ... but when it was his turn to go on stage and talk about JRuby, he clearly perked up. Coming out with a microphone, he literally began to bomb the hall with his short and energetic phrases - I think that after Douglas’s words, many again believed that JRuby is convenient, fast and effective, that it should be used as a replacement for MRI.











    Finally, the youngest speaker is Jonathan Leighton., who is now only 22 years old and counts the days until his next birthday, spoke about Active Record, to the development of which he was directly related as a member of the Rails Core team. John is a budding young man who went to higher education only because "it helps to better understand some mathematical and logical problems, but otherwise it is useless" :) Of course, on his part it was a joke with some truth, but John actually impresses beyond the years of a wise specialist who will soon take the place of CTO of a London startup. But I promised him not to disclose details, so I have to keep my word.

    At the end of the conference, there was a traditional prize draw - this time in addition to Yota gadgets and tickets for the next one. Toaster we played branded Habramayki and our new board game " Startup ":







    As a final note - afterparty:



    We hope that you have a good impression about conferences.  toaster {ruby} - we will definitely do another Ruby conference, as now foreign guys are ready to help us.





    The next toaster will be dedicated to JS and will be held on Friday, April 13th - do not miss our Devil show.

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    PS Special thanks to the guys from Evil Martians for their help in preparing the conference program. By the way, they conduct a master class on development on Ruby on Rails, and for conference participants they provided discount coupons that were in the participants' packages.


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